Anyone else cure their own meat?

 

I’ve been making my own game sausage the last couple years, but never any curing. I thought I’d give curing a try. 

 

I just started last month with bacon. Man it is delicious! We ended up with about 8lbs from a pork belly. 2/3 was applewood smoke and the last slab was peppered and applewood smoked. 

 

I went to lunch today and had a tri-tip pastrami sandwich... so now I have a slab of tri-tip curing in the fridge. 

Edited December 10, 20186 yr by AH64ID

Never done any curing but I recently got a smoker so I’ve been going to town with that and trying all different sorts of things.

What kind of smoker did you get?

 

I've been smoking things on my traeger and it works better than expected on a long smoke. In the past I've never gone over 4 hours from 40-140° so curing wasn't required, but I may try curing some sausage/brats in the future. 

I ended up with a Traeger as well. 

I have been eye balling the treager.

 

As for curing meat, not yet.  It does interest me though

I’ve always enjoyed processing my own Elk and deer but time and making room to do it within the last few years have not been in my favor so it’s usually straight from field dressing to the butcher.

 

I do save about 20 lbs of unprocessed meet for curing to make Jerkey and summer sausage, as far as curing ingredients I usually just get what looks good on the shelf with the pre package stuff from the local store or Bass Pro. 

1 hour ago, Me78569 said:

I have been eye balling the treager.

 

DO IT!

Just now, notlimah said:

 

DO IT!

 

Agree!! I've been cooking on one since '94 and have always been happy. 

 

I have been eyeballing the new Timberline Series, but ouch$!!!

1 minute ago, AH64ID said:

 

Agree!! I've been cooking on one since '94 and have always been happy. 

 

I have been eyeballing the new Timberline Series, but ouch$!!!

 

Jeez! I didn't even know they've been around that long! I may need to pick your brain on some stuff!!

 

Those timberlines are serious cash that's for sure. I was able to get a good deal on a pro 22, which is probably more than I need but that's a good thing when it comes to these!